Congresswoman Janice Hahn wrote the amendment based on research done by Lloyd Chapman’s American Small Business League (ASBL). On March 25, 2015, Hahn issued a press release expressing her concerns on the problem.

The last GAO investigation into fraud and abuse in federal small business contracting programs, which was also based on information provided by Chapman, was completed in 2003.

A February 2003 story in Washington Technology reported, “The General Accounting Office began its own investigation based on information Chapman provided,” stated by GAO executive, Dave Cooper.

Chapman has won a series of Freedom of Information Act cases that uncovered widespread fraud in federal small business contracting programs. The government was forced to release thousands of pages of documents that proved Fortune 500 firms were the actual recipients of federal contracts that the SBA reported as contracts awarded to small businesses.

In Report 5-15 the SBA Inspector General described the diversion of federal small business contracts to corporate giants as, “One of the most important challenges facing the Small Business Administration (SBA) and the entire Federal Government today.”

“Congresswoman Hahn’s amendment could bring an end to the rampant fraud and abuse in federal small business contracting programs that have cheated legitimate small businesses out of hundreds of billions over the last few years. Being an advocate for small business is not a popular stance in Washington these days and Congresswoman Hahn has demonstrated a great deal of courage and integrity in requesting a new GAO investigation into this very serious problem,” stated Lloyd Chapman, President of the American Small Business League.